George Holtz codes 11 hours straight live stream [video]

>> Man, if that's how professional vim users work, this piece of video will be the only proof I will ever need to prevent zealots from even wasting IDE users time to try vim.

I'm a zealot, and it's a waste of my time to try and convince someone to use vim. If someone is trying to sell you on using vim, remind them of the code they should be writing instead of flapping their lips at you. The "you gotta use vim!" folks are usually half-adept hacks. They don't quite understand it as fully as they feel they should, so instead they try to get good vibes by convincing you to make the same decisions they did.

disclaimer: 20-year vi/vim user - could care less whether anyone else uses it or not.

cmu pushes vim in most of their courses, all the TAs use it too that's why you aren't seeing glorious emacs hacking on cruise control by GeoHot

The best article on VIM is "Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi?" http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html

I myself use vi modes inside IDE's, and can't be happier.

You missed the real point. Its not how he uses vim. It's a rare chance to experience how a 1000x programmer works. Its a gift to see a very bright, proven programmer code. To look at how an accomplished knowledgeable coder thinks, google's with the kind of keyword, what websites he vists, the songs he plays, even the kind of drinks, food e.t.c(for 11 hours straight some drinks might be suited best). If you work for a big tech company( and in the right team) you might get to see over the shoulders of 1000x devs. But for the rest of us this is the closest to looking over the shoulder of 1000x dev at work.

Based on the video playing on his screen it looks like he is working on parts of the autonomous driving system, most likely related to the startup that he was Head of Research for, called comma.ai

IIRC, he + the CEO raised a bunch of money to work on his own self-driving car designs, which culminated in a prototype that wasn't as feature-rich as some of the better capitalized players, which had been demoed a few years back in limited capacity over the last few years. He just got kicked out, as reported in TC on the 18th of last month though, so maybe he's making his own new thing.

Search on YT for comma.ai and you'll see some good content.

[ edit: past tense, was Head of Research for. ]

Google up GeoHot. Early jailbreaks on iOS. PS3 stuff.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz

Become a lot more mature in the last few years, smart guy.

Edit: not a must watch individual, but see what he is up to every so often.

He's the infamous jacket that is know for rooting the iPhone as well as the PlayStation. He also gets press every so often for trolling musk and Tesla with his self driving startup that aims to hack regular production vehicles to self drive. Probably working on code related to self driving.

He's a young hacker who apparently hacked the iphone and Play Station 3, but now has founded a self driving car system designed for older cars.

Pretty interesting character, this is a [1] good interview about him and his ideas.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqdYbwY9vPU

Guy who stole jailbreaks from IRC and went public with them, falsely claiming he created the hacks.

Creator of "live hack" youtube videos he later admitted were scripted and fake.

Founder of ridiculous self driving car company that never had a chance of going anywhere.

He's a charlatan.